It's bad enough being backed by French voters by a margin of 16 to 1 in the latest Gallup poll, but it's even worse when you get the official endorsement of a terrorist-sponsoring state like Iran. The Guardian is reporting that Ali Larijani, speaker of the Iranian parliament and a former commander of the Revolutionary Guards, has declared Barack Obama the favoured candidate of the Iranian regime, as he is "more flexible and rational".
It is easy to understand why Obama gets the blessing of the brutal Iranian dicatorship when he is offering to sit down for a fireside chat over a nice cup of tea to discuss Tehran's nuclear ambitions. John McCain on the other hand is threatening to actually take on the Mullahs, who are responsible for the killing of numerous American and British soldiers in Iraq, and who are threatening a nuclear holocaust against Israel.
A policy of appeasement will always win you friends among the most odious of tyrannies, but the world will be a far more dangerous place as a result. British Obamacons should think twice before swooning over a presidential candidate who has the embarrassing support of a maniacal tyrant like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
